Watched all of the Wednesday night shows last night, Lost, Veronica Mars (actually a Tuesday night show, but premiered on Wednesday), CSI: NY, Hawaii and Law & Order.

I love watching shows simultaneously, one until the commercial, then the next one until the commercial, and so on. Like I read several books at once, this is one of my favourite things to do.

Lost
I was really looking forward to this one, and I was not disappointed. I've liked Matthew Fox since the wonderful Haunted last year, and it's by J.J. Abrams, and next to it being by Joss Whedon or Jerry Bruckheimer (I know, I know, but so far I've really liked his TV shows), there isn't anything better to recommend it.

I was telling Mom that it sounded good, but she said that she didn't want to watch another Gilligan's Island. I told her that I had a pretty good idea that it would be different, but she stood firm. Turns out, I was right. Although, they might call Dominic Monaghan "Little Buddy" at some point, I wouldn't count that out.

This is, however, the best show ever to be an extra on, because if it runs, you are guaranteed an upgrade. If you have a show with only 48 characters on it, eventually, you'll want all 48 to speak. Or maybe they'll bring on the Harlem Globetrotters. It's about fifty-fifty, I'd say.

Veronica Mars
An extremely appealing lead girl, a complicated backplot and central mystery (I love shows with quests involved), a good supporting cast, and not everybody is pretty, which is a treat in a high school show.

I totally dig the biker leader guy, whom I think was on Without a Trace's season premiere this week. Heavenly day, he's Frank Capra's great-grandson! If keeps on as he's going, he's carrying on his family name with honour.

This may be my favourite new show of the night. Too bad I'm going to have to choose between it and Clubhouse, since I only have the LA feed for NBC (why I can TiVo both CSI: NY and Law & Order. Well, maybe Clubhouse will suck.

Well, that was easy. It only took me 3 minutes of watching the Clubhouse premiere to make my choice. Even with Peter Pan in the lead and Christopher Lloyd as the gruff-but-lovable coach, it looks basically unwatchable.

CSI: NY
I live in NY, and I can affirmed--yes, everything is gunmetal grey. We are a bluish city where nobody wears bright colours. Confirmed: you can take a palette too far. I liked the filters in Traffic, but that was a two hour-long movie, not week after week of pasty blue cops. Even the black guy is blue.

I clearly watch too many crime dramas, as I was able to say "We got a serial" a full twenty seconds before Gary Sinese did. Yeah, yeah, I like it, I'll watch it, but it didn't grab me right off the bat like the other two CSIs did and do.

That closing shot was a cheap cheap cheap trick, but it worked. No more of that, please, CSI: NY.

Hawaii
This isn't a very good show, but I like it anyway. Anything that gives Michael Bien steady work is okay by me, and, as Entertainment Weekly said recently, it does up the percentage of Asian actors on TV by about 30,000%.

It's standard cop show, nothing new or interesting, but the actors are reasonably charming and at least everything isn't blue. I particularly like Eric Balfour, (it's making me crazy why I recognize him, but it's either from Buffy or 24) and Peter Navy Tuiasosopo as the big giant Hawaiian guy, because there always must be a big giant Hawaiian guy, but this one is a good actor and has a more interesting character than fat actors generally get.

Law & Order
I like Dennis Farina, I miss Jerry Orbach, but I have always liked Dennis Farina and I think he makes a good replacement on the show that constantly needs replacements. My favourite cast will always be the first, since I love George Dzundza very much indeed, not to mention Chris Noth and Dann Florek and my old school friend Richard Brooks.

Can somebody please explain to me, though, why TiVo chooses to give away the show in their captions? "The sister of an inmate at Abu Ghraib is suspected of murdering a Guardsman" is something that we should only know half an hour into the show, not before it starts.

Caught up with Columbine and Jette.

Edited to add: I just read this entry of Jette's, about Russ Meyer, and as I wrote in the comments, I was at that very same triple-bill that Jette went to at the Scala in London!

A girl of taste and class, that's our Jette. Just like me!

Today's horoscope:
There won't be any casual chitchat in your world for a few days -- but there will be plenty of passion. Ready or not, prepare for every little thing to become larger than life.

One year ago today:
Then I thought, man, the last thing I need right now with my emotional life in such a shambles is to get chase after a 25-year-old, no matter how cute.

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